A new dream

I was nervous.

You’d been in your mama’s belly for so long. I was walking down the hallway, wondering how to be with you, hold you, love you. I saw you, scooped you up. An unknown ventricle in my heart opened and a new flavor of love erupted through me.

When I woke up, Lara said I’d been laughing. I remembered the warm weight of you, so important and tiny. You saw wonder in my face. I saw the explosion of a timeless universe, which now had you in it.

I loved you in a dream, my daughter. One day.

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